Main Features

At its most basic, CodeSmith Generator is an application to generate code by combining templates with metadata. Within that framework, it includes a number of powerful features:

• A powerful template language similar to ASP.NET.
• A simple user interface for quick interactive code generation
• An object model that allows your templates to interact directly with the CodeSmith Generator engine
• A complete integrated development environment (IDE) for CodeSmith Generator templates
• Strong Integration within Visual Studio for executing and managing your code generation.
• Powerful code generation automation using CodeSmith Generator Projects, console-based code generation, and MSBuild task.
• Interactive debugging features for tracking down template errors
• Flexible metadata providers including .NET types, database connectivity, XML support, and custom metadata sources
• Console-based code generation for use in automated build processes
• And many more features which can be found here.